6.1 Understanding the Principles and Recommendations of the Operational Excellence Pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11foundation · easy

   Which Google Cloud service is specifically designed to collect, store, and analyze log data?

   • ACloud Monitoring
   • BCloud Logging
   • CCloud Functions
   • DCloud Storage
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2. 12foundation · easy

   Which design practice best supports the 'design for reliability and operability' principle?

   • ADesigning a system that requires manual intervention for every change
   • BPrioritizing feature development over operational tooling
   • CUsing a single large instance to simplify management
   • DImplementing automated health checks and self-healing mechanisms
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4. 13foundation · easy

   What is the first step in an effective incident management process?

   • ANotifying customers
   • BRolling back to a previous version
   • CDetecting the incident
   • DConducting a post-incident review
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5. 14foundation · easy

   In the context of the operational excellence pillar, what does 'observability' primarily enable?

   • AThe ability to secure data from unauthorized access
   • BThe ability to understand the internal state of a system from its external outputs
   • CThe ability to predict future capacity requirements based on historical data
   • DThe ability to automatically recover from any failure without human intervention
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6. 15application · medium

   After a major incident, your team holds a post-incident review. The incident was caused by a configuration change that was not reviewed. You want to prevent similar incidents. What should you do?

   • ARestrict access to the production environment so that only a small group of engineers can make configuration changes.
   • BImplement a change management process that requires all configuration changes to be approved by a senior engineer before deployment.
   • CUse Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with a CI/CD pipeline that includes automated tests and peer review of code changes before they are merged.
   • DAdd a Cloud Monitoring alert that notifies the team when any configuration change is detected in the environment.
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